Category Archives: Education

BAARROOOMMM!

By Jay | Published: 01/15/2013

Regards to the Man in the Moon read aloud: I’m creating a “Find the Differences” game for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and have been using photos of the original art with no text. I just found this video of a couple of children in a library reading the book. It’s been funny for me [...]

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Board Game Design Success

By Jay | Published: 06/20/2012

For the past 6 Fridays I’ve been running an art and design program at HOLA Charter School in Hoboken. I taught a 3-week board game design class to grades k-3. I’ve written about the curriculum in April and last November. Each child received an 11″x 17″ piece of card stock with a pre-printed grid on [...]

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Light and Dark

By Jay | Published: 05/23/2012

I’ll never forget the time I was setting up class when a student ran up to me and excitedly thrust a picture he’d drawn at home in front of my face. In the center was a crude image of an airplane engulfed in flames flying directly at a high mountain. To the right was a [...]

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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Board

By Jay | Published: 04/20/2012

My game and mapping class is coming up in May at Hoboken HOLA and today I put together a sample game board to prep. One of my studio mates gave me a piece of photographic seamless paper so I figured I’d try enlarging the game board idea to full table size. I figure a 9′x4′ [...]

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Quiet and Reflective

By Jay | Published: 02/21/2012

Susan Cain, author of the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking offers an insightful analysis of how we understand and often misinterpret introversion in children and adults. For example, just because a child is doesn’t participate in a “Mommy and Me” type class at a young age does [...]

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Quieting Down the Classroom

By Jay | Published: 02/08/2012

I find that my elementary school classes can be a bit noisy. It’s partly because the kids have been in class all day and drawing is after-school enrichment. It’s probably also because I talked a lot in school and I have a relaxed attitude toward letting students converse with their friends. When I was in [...]

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